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In this stunning account of the human impact of a single machine John Ellis argues that the history of technology and military history are part and parcel of social history in general The Social History of the Machine Gun now with a new foreword by Edward C Ezell provides an original and fascinating interpretation of weaponry warfare and society in nineteenthand twentiethcentury Europe and AmericaFrom its beginning the machine gun threatened established assumptions about the nature of war In spite of its highly effective use in the European colonization of Africa the machine gun was resisted by military elites who clung to the old certanties of the battlefieldthe glorious change and opportunities for individual heroism These values were carried into the trenches of World War I and swept away along with a generation of soldiersAfter the war machine guns became commercially availble in America and in many ways became a symbol of the times Advertisements touted the Thompson submachine gun as the ideal weapon for protecting factory and farm while tommy guns entered the cultures imagination with Machine Gun Kelly and Boonie and Clyde More significantly Ellis suggests the machine gun was the catalyst for the modern arms race It necessitated a technological response first the armored tank then the jet fighter and perhaps ultimately the hydrogen bomb

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